Shillong : Eleven coal miners were drowned and five others critically
injured when a truck in which they were travelling fell into a river in
Meghalaya, police said Thursday.
The incident took place Wednesday evening when the truck rammed into
the railing of the 140-metre Jadukata bridge across the Ranikor river in
West Khasi Hills district, near the Bangladesh border.
The miners were on their way home to spend Christmas with their families.
The dead included the truck driver, Muthu Ramachandran, the police chief of West Khasi Hills, told IANS.